Cheque book designs, bank stationery and merch chat 📇🧐

[hannng]

Continuing the discussion from MasterCard and contingency. As a stationery geek, I have a love hate relationship with cheques - I like looking at the different designs and the feel of the paper, but dread the fact some public services still insist on using them.

@Urpert

might start a cheque book design thread when I get home

@Jms

Now this I’m interested in

@teflon

This is maybe one for the chequebook thread when someone starts it, but I’ve not written a cheque since 2020, when our milkman started accepting PayPal.

The chequebook, however, still lives on the kitchen noticeboard, and has kept that position even through a house move.

@dinosm

I believe last time I wrote a cheque was around 2010.

The first cheque I’ve ever received in my life was in 2018, issued by a law firm. Pre cheque imaging days, it took 1-2 hours to walk to a branch, queue up and wait to get a cheque cashed in.

Last time I needed to write a cheque: yesterday, but cheque book went AWOL.

[Pyros (Pyro)]

Santander and Lloyds International gave me a cheque book which I did use a few times in Jersey. As back in Jersey a lot of people still like using Cheques.

When I next go back over I will grab them and take some pics.

[Urpert]

I’ll add mine to this when I get home.

[Hunk_of_Cheese]

Here’s mine - I’d love to see some others. The generic NatWest / Ulster ones are disappointing. Bank of Scotland is peak 1990’s design.

EDIT: yes, I have written 225 Lloyds cheques.

[Urpert]

Ooh Barclays Premier gets a special cover.

[Arnie7]

Where they are, I don’t know, but I should have TSB NI, Citibank (£ and $), Prudential US, Charles Schwab, Girobank, Cahoot, Alliance & Leicester, Woolwich, Child & Co, Nationwide, HSBC, Credit Agricole (Britline and Pyrenees Orientale), BNP. They will turn up sometime, probably during next year’s house move.

[Arnie7]

Chequebooks used to be a big thing, and checkbooks still are.

[Pyros (Pyro)]

Jersey is still old fashioned with banking. So you always get a chequebook with an account.

[Arnie7]

And, not to be forgotten, Killik & Co which is a seriously impressive chequebook. Cheques were way bigger than the usual size.

[orangefuturebright (NC)]

Not anymore sadly. The current Premier chequebook is the standard blue one!

[projectfortytwo (Chris)]

I banked with BNLI in Grenoble in the mid 1980s. The cheque book cover was akin to this 1988 calendar cover.

The actual cheques were the standard rectangular French design (taller but narrower than UK ones). No photos online and sadly I had to return unused cheques when I left, but they had a drawing of the view of the river and the telepherique on them, a similar view to this one.

[projectfortytwo (Chris)]

My favourite cheque designs were probably the Eurocheques of the late 80s and 90s. Mine were National Westminster Bank and later, first direct.

[Jamie93]

this thread has reminded me I still have this:

The cheques have the animals on them too

[Urpert]

Current cheque book collection (can’t find the Lloyds one)

NWG really have stopped trying, haven’t they.

Also some bonus Nationwide passbooks:

And a RBS Cash Club paying-in book holder from about 1990:

[Dunsford (Colin Robinson)]

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